Altair Global Digital Twin Contest for Students | March 1 - May 5

Dana Alkhatib

Hi everyone!

My name is Dana, I am a Mechatronics Engineering student at The University of Jordan. I am so excited to participate in this competition. 

Thank you Altair for this opportunity 

Shashi_21585

Sir, In task A I am not able find My Blocks in the menu for adding ContourToXY,

Kindly Help.

mehul kumar

I am mehul kumar, a  masters students in computer science from germany. Digital twin as a concept is gaining popularity. I started working with first principle models to model motors and drives and to start working on new and slightly advanced things kind of. excites me. Looking forward to what more is to learn from here

michele arrighini_22577

Greetings,
I'm attending master's degree course in industrial 
automation engineering at Università degli Studi di Brescia.
I'm really interested in this kind of systems owing to my bachelor thesis, 
which was about the modelization and control of a ball&plate system. 
Thank you for this opportunity!

Marco Ferrari_22057

Hi everyone, I'm a Industrial Automation engineering student in Univeristà degli studi di Brescia. I decided to attend this competition because I really enjoy control system problems and challenges. 

Thank you for this opportunity.

Isaque Coutinho

Hello!

I am studying aeronautical-mechanical engineering at UNIFEI, Brazil. I'm joining this contest with three team-mates: Gabriel Hasmann, Nathan Oliveira and Petrus Fiore.

This is a big opportunity to learn more about digital twins and develop my skills and creativity in this subject!

Danielle_21252

Announcement: Altair Global Digital Twin Contest Extended to May 3rd

Hello Altair Global Digital Twin contest enthusiasts! I wanted to quickly announce that the contest had been extended to May 3rd. There are still 5 more weeks to compete in this contest, make sure to register. 

armin_22187

Do you have issues with the Path or stability??

We got some comments about issues that the ball could not follow the path. Here some tips & tricks:

The path should be given in [mm] and within +-160mm for X and +-125mm for Y. You can check the path easily by changing the Block 'Reference Trajectory':

the 'Gain' of 0 ensures that the plant (ball) will not follow the path input, an easy way to speed up checks (I recommend to select the linear plant with PID controller as well and remove the 'real time scaling' in the simulation parameters to get results in "warp speed".)

The plot shows the problem for the selected path.... scaling and offset is required:

You still might see issues when you select the 'observer' as controller. The reason can be the setting of the 'initial state':

 

Either you give the whole system more time to settle (the observer will adjust itself) or you define a better value for x0_est right from the beginning:

The current model pulls the initial position for the observer directly from the .csv file and later modifications are not considered. The easiest (but not most flexible) way is to replicate the modification.

I am sure you will figure out how the ball will follow your path - let us know if you have issues or let others know if you have solutions

Gaurav Bothra

Greetings,

I am Gaurav, a masters student in automotive engineering in Germany. I have worked on a ball balanced system during my bachelors and the concept of Digital Twin is very interesting and would love to learn more about it. Really thankful for such a great opportunity.

Kayra Bolci

Hi everyone, I am a mechanical engineering student from Turkey. I liked this control application and want to improve myself in that field. I want to start taking part in digital twins applications, so I joined this competition.

Good wishes!  

Abhishek Yadav

I am a 3nd-year college student doing petroleum engineering. I am very enthusiastic regarding simulation and rendering objects. I am also interested in exploring new areas outside my domain as a result I am signing up for the Twin contest. By participating, I think this will help me grow as a person, student, scholar, whatever applies.

Ishaan Dalmia

I am a 3rd-year college student doing mechanical engineering. I am very passionate about simulation and rendering objects. Thank you Altair for this incredible opportunity to get familiarized with new technology. 

Jakab Molnar

Hi! I’m an M.Sc. mechanical engineer student from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. This is my final year at the university. I want to improve my creative design skills and knowledge about Altair's software at this competition. I’m teaming up with András Mózer.

András Mózer

Hello Everybody,

I'm a masters student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, studying mechanical engineering. I have a passion for this field of engineering, but as the world stands today, mechatronics and robotics are for sure the future. So when I heard about this competition, I immediately thought that this would be an excellent opportunity to gain some experience in control technology. The other reason for participating is that I'm very much fascinated about simulations, because it's getting more and more accepted alternative for prototype testing. So, all in all, I think this is a very up-to-date challenge, and I'm very much excited to improve myself in this dynamically changing field of engineering.

IMPORTANT: I'm participating together with Jakab Molnár.

Best of luck to you all!

Daud Abdullah Khan

Hi everyone, My name is Daud Abdullah Khan. I am a student of mechanical engineering at NUST, Pakistan. I am very passionate about mechanical engineering and its applications. I am participating in this competition to learn about mechatronics. This will help me in growing professionally and being a technically sound engineer by utilizing the latest available Altair simulation softwares.

Muhammad Shahrukh Saeed

Having difficulty in saving the Altair Embed work as CSV(Excel) file. Need solutions please.

 

Ahmet Yavuz

Since the submission deadline is extended, will there be any bonus points available to those who are able to submit before 19th of April?

Rahul_P1

Shashi_21585 said:

Sir, In task A I am not able find My Blocks in the menu for adding ContourToXY,

Kindly Help.

HI Shashi,

 

First, we you will need to add the ContourToXY.dll into embed, this will prepare Embed for reading contours of images, extracting the contour coordinates, and saving it to a .csv file.

• Open Altair Embed > go to Edit > select Preferences, a window as shown below will appear > Go to Addons tab

 

• Scroll down and click on ... > Browse and select the ContourToXY.dll (ContourToXY.dll file is provided along with this document) > Click OK

• Close and Restart Embed

 this is described in the video in the training material section as well for task A

Rahul_P1

András Mózer said:

Hello Everybody,

I'm a masters student at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, studying mechanical engineering. I have a passion for this field of engineering, but as the world stands today, mechatronics and robotics are for sure the future. So when I heard about this competition, I immediately thought that this would be an excellent opportunity to gain some experience in control technology. The other reason for participating is that I'm very much fascinated about simulations, because it's getting more and more accepted alternative for prototype testing. So, all in all, I think this is a very up-to-date challenge, and I'm very much excited to improve myself in this dynamically changing field of engineering.

IMPORTANT: I'm participating together with Jakab Molnár.

Best of luck to you all!

Welcome to you and Jakab!

Rahul_P1

Ahmet Yavuz said:

Since the submission deadline is extended, will there be any bonus points available to those who are able to submit before 19th of April?

Hi Ahmet,

The solution to the problem in most cases takes about 4 days,

April 19th is 3 weeks away and since the extension is for all (all participants can make use of the extra time to improve their submissions) bonus points cannot be awarded based on date of submission.

Nicolás Hernández

Hi my name is Nicolás, I already did this but I touhgt it was important to mention that I will be working with Juan Felipe Garzón. We are both mechanical engineer students from Universidad de La Sabana in Colombia, and we are really exited to learn about this new tools in control technology. Thanks!!

Rahul_P1

Shashi_21585 said:

Rahul Ponginan_22560 said:

Here is another cool rendering video example of task C of the Global Digital Twin contest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAe4B15KXUs

Sir, In task A Iam not able find My Blocks in the UI for adding ContourToXY,

Kindly Help.

Shashi,

You should find it in openvision > operations

Rahul_P1

Isaque Coutinho said:

Hello!

I am studying aeronautical-mechanical engineering at UNIFEI, Brazil. I'm joining this contest with three team-mates: Gabriel Hasmann, Nathan Oliveira and Petrus Fiore.

This is a big opportunity to learn more about digital twins and develop my skills and creativity in this subject!

Hi Isaque,

Each team member must RSVP Above and comment here to register.

@Petrus Fiore and Nathan Oliviera please RSVP And comment,

You can participate as a team, the prize money will be divided equally amongst the members if a team wins,

 

Rahul_P1

Although the Altair Global Digital Twin Contest for Students is a virtual contest, check out these fun and really inspiring videos of the real physical twin of the digital twin in action

Acrome Ball Balancing Table: Maze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keScOD7Hhlg

Acrome Ball Balancing Table: Gets back in line by itself!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rArt8PRwVOw

Acrome Ball Balancing Table: Why Controls Matter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARt_LlayFso

Petrus Fiore

Hello everyone! I'm studying mechanical engineering with topics in aeronautics at the Federal University of Itajubá, in my home country: Brazil. I will participate in the contest with three friends: Isaque Coutinho, Nathan Oliveira and Gabriel Hasmann.

I strongly believe that with this contest I will be able to challenge myself, learn new and interesting topics and prepare myself to a world that is conected and automated. It's an opportunity to anyone that loves math, logical thinking and engineering in general.

Rahul_P1

Muhammad Shahrukh Saeed said:

Having difficulty in saving the Altair Embed work as CSV(Excel) file. Need solutions please.

 

HI Abdul,

When you run the embed diagram, the .csv will be output automatically, you will see a LogoTracelog.csv in the same folder as the model file is in, you should open this .csv

You seem to be saving the entire diagram (which is a .vsm file, that should be opened by embed only) as .csv and opening this file, this is the cause for what you see.

Sanskriti Pal

Hello! I am Sanskriti Pal from S.V. National Institute of Technology, Surat. I am a 3rd-year college student studying mechanical engineering. I am very passionate about CAD and CFD. I am also interested in exploring new advancements in the world of simulation. Hence, I am signing up for the Digital Twin Contest.

SANDEEP VARMA KAKARLAPUDI

my name is sandeep varma,

studying b.tech ,final year in the stream of mechanical engineering 

i just want to learn some knowledge from the access provided by altair

Felipe Barreto

Hi everyone, my name is Felipe and I am a 3rd-year student of mechanical Engineering at Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia. I am grateful for the opportunity provided, and the truth is that I feel very excited about the topic discussed. I feel like the automation part is very important, which is why I love learning about it.

Sharan

I am 3rd year mechanical engineering student in Shiv Nadar University. Learning new things excites me and digital twin is new for me.